Congratulations Dr. Jonathan Bartholomaeus – 2024 SASP Early Career Award recipient

The SASP Early Career Award is awarded to an emerging scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of social psychology in Australasia.

The 2024 SASP ECR Award goes to Dr. Jonathan Bartholomaeus.

Johnathan presented his research at the SASP 2024 Conference in Canberra. He received his ECR Award from SASP past president Brock Bastian.

Congratulations Dr. Jonathan Bartholomaeus!


I am a researcher and lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. I work at the nexus of personality and social psychology with a specific focus on, and passion for, the moral psychology topics of justice, power, and forgiveness. Much of my research centres on how people’s perception of their just treatment drives their attitudes and behaviours in personal, relational, and political spheres.

I also have an interest in psychometrics and latent variable structural equation modelling which I integrate into many of my research projects. Currently, I am working on improving self-report measures of the belief in a just world, a framework for validating manipulation checks, and developing a measure of the psychological experience of divine forgiveness.

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